blow hot and cold
Keep changing positions
To blow hot and cold is to waver between enthusiasm and indifference, or between opposing positions: She keeps blowing hot and cold about moving in together.
The phrase suggests unreliability—someone whose feelings or opinions shift unpredictably, making them difficult to trust or satisfy.
- fluctuateVary irregularly over time
- vacillateWaver between choices
- waverHesitate or fluctuate
- back and forthRepeated alternating movement
- equivocateSpeak vaguely to mislead
of two minds · shift · falter · hedge · have second thoughts · waffle · shilly-shally · hesitate · fickleness · inconsistency · flip-flopping · on again off again · indecisiveness · mixed signals · ambivalence · of two minds · wobble · capriciousness
- temperature idiomshot head, in hot water, hot under the collar, cool as a cucumber, hot potato
- Weather Idiomsunder the weather, when it rains it pours, come rain or shine, rain check, take a rain check
- Inconsistencywishy-washy, flip-flop, fickle, unreliable, unpredictable
consistency of attitude or behavior
blow hot and coldconsistent
Not varying or contradicting
steady · constant · unwavering · steadfast · stable
blow, blows, blown, blowing, blower, hotter, hotly, hotness, cold